- plural of oleum.
olea
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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"With the crabs to-day in one's hand and the olea before one's eyes, one cannot help inditing verses," Pao-yü smiled.
From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by H. Bencraft Joly
Tailors lining upon ragou royal, Spanish olea, Puddock—fat livers, and green morels in the Phœnix, the scoundrels, and laughing to see poor gentlemen of the Royal Irish Artillery starving at their gates—hang 'em.'
From The House by the Church-Yard by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
She sat in a high-ceiled, white-walled room with French windows opening on a terrace where olea fragans blossoms expanded round the base of a statue by Canova.
From Sacrifice by Stephen French Whitman
The French import a tea called têhulan, but it is artificially flavoured with a leaf called lan hoa, or the olea fragrans of Linnæus.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
Some punster will say, respecting oleaster, that it is olea sterilis.
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